Previously released titles are brought to new life. Mary Middling and Other Silly Folk: Nursery Rhymes and Nonsense Poems takes poems first published in the U.S. in 1932 as Fifty-One New Nursery ...

When I met my wonderful wife Rose, we found it funny that we were both writers. I wrote comedy for television and advertising, and she was a gifted (Pulitzer-nominated!) journalist and poet. Rose ...

Nursery rhymes are fun little songs or poems that many of us learned as kids. They help children with language, rhythm, and memory, and they are often passed down from generation to generation. One ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition? Think again.

What may at first glance seem like a simple nature poem holds a deeper meaning that can teach children a lot about our world. First published in 1846, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “The Mountain and the ...

Poetry is great but everyone thinks it has to rhyme. Well I’m here to tell you it does not. In fact, at times, Rhyme can get annoying. It creeps into your head And that can get boring. It fills me ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Alan Katz, who lives in Milford, Connecticut. Alan says, “I’ve been writing since Miss Gordon showed me the alphabet in kindergarten. But I’ve been a ...